Guptas willing to give testimony into State Capture inquiry

Members of the Gupta family, who’ve been implicated in looting billions of rand from state companies, are willing to give testimony before a judicial panel investigating the alleged graft but only from outside the country, said one of their lawyers.

The three Gupta brothers have a “reasonable apprehension” that they could be arrested and prosecuted by authorities that are reckless, incompetent and wield unbridled power, Mike Hellens, Ajay Gupta’s lawyer, told the panel in Johannesburg on Thursday.

“They will not expose themselves to bodies that behave in such a manner.”

The Guptas are friends with Jacob Zuma, who was forced by the ruling party to resign as president in February, and were in business with his son, Duduzane.